You can’t regulate friends, even in high places

Share via

It’s quite normal for the Prime Minister to have powerful friends, and quite abnormal to make him declare them

This is to be a column in defence of impressive and powerful people having friends. Which is a bit of a public service, to be honest, because none of them seems to have the remotest interest in being friends with me. “That can’t be right,” you’ll be saying to yourself, but only if you’ve not yet realised you aren’t reading Giles Coren. Look again. Hello. No, I don’t know where he is, but if I know Giles, which I don’t really, I’m sure it’ll be somewhere with a large assortment of impressive and powerful friends, of precisely the sort I